Document scanning (was Re: [sdiy] manuals for many thingsfor free)

[Florian_Anwander]

Hi Glen, Hi Chris

> Just watch out for copyright violations. Personally, I'd like to see ALL the
> service manuals ever written freely available on the internet for download by
> anyone, but that isn't going to happen. For one thing, most companies tend to
> be very protective of their intellectual property rights.
I had a talk with a guy from yamaha germany and another from roland
germany on exactly this question. The problem ain't the copyright. Noone
would like this more than the companies themselves. The problems are
exclusive service contracts, that the companies did with service shops
in the late seventies; these contracts are often done over an unlimited
time range. If such a shop wants to spite the company the site which
provides the schemoes is the silly one...

Florian

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